[bksvol-discuss] Re: Things spellcheck can't do
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:01:37 -0800 (PST)
I was validating a book that had Part I, Part II, etc in it, but unfortunately
the OCR program read the capital P's as capital F's..... I made double-sure I
changed them all back to P's!
Carrie
Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Mickey,
Mickey, you gave me such a great laugh. I know just what you mean! I've
found absurd scannos in the best of scans which to my mind are nobody's
fault. The mousetraps may be better, but none of them are fool proof. As
long as scannoes exist, I prefer to find them endearing and love ridding the
book of the little pests so they won't distract a reader who will download a
book I've validated from Bookshare. Here are a few samples from a wide
selection of books.
My favorite
All of the orcs in the Tolkien books were ores.
farmers were fanners
ll became U
al became d
M was AA
e was 9
saints were sahts
battles are barrles
flying was frying
and fry was try
accented letters were anyone's guess
anything in italics was fair game
Mind you I'm talking about a teeny few errors in masses of text, but being a
perfectionist has its rewards and not primarily in the form of credits. The
humor factor ranks high with me along with the satisfaction factor.
I hope to read about more of the funny surprises our scans turn up.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "mickey"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Things spellcheck can't do
> Hi, List.
>
> Now, I'll admit I'm nothing if not totally anal. I'm a proofreader by
> profession, and read everything in sight. I normally read any book I
> validate, but the book I'm reading now really points up the value of
> reading books before circulating.
>
> The book is On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. The book ended
> up as 840 pages long, and I'd assume by the size it was a big one.
> Definitely had to build muscles to scan that puppy!
>
> I learned things like the well-known author Erie Stanley Gardner wrote the
> Perry Mason material. Then there was the comedy team, George Burns and
> Grade Allen. The spell-checker choked on all the names. And the poor
> scanner thought 1945-49 or anything of that type should be written 1945^9.
>
> I believe that it is close to 50 sides on cassette from NLS. Now I'm
> working on the Index, should be done tomorrow.
>
> Are there really people who think we do this just for the credit? I
> figured I'd be the perfect person to do this, because I'm old enough to
> remember many of the names. But just a spellcheck would never work.
>
> Kudos to the person who had the patience to scan this book. Now I'll go
> take it off my wishlist from NLS.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mickey
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